Bidspirit auctions | Kestenbaum & Company Auction Jun 11

Kestenbaum & Company, Jun 11. 274 lots, estimates 100 - 60000 $.

Kestenbaum & Company -

Overall contents of this auction can be found at the Table of Contents

Lots in this catalog (274)

Lot 1: (ALEPPO). Vital, Chaim. Sha’arei Kedushah [Kabbalah]. — $500 - $700
Lot 2: BIBLE. (Hebrew and Latin. JOEL, MALACHI ). Yoel U’Melachi. — $800 - $1,200
Lot 3: BIBLE. (Hebrew). Arba’ah Ve’Esrim. Printers device on title and verso of final leaf (Yaari, — $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 4: BIBLE. (Hebrew). Sepher Tehillim - Psalterium Hebraicum. Few text annotations. ff. (190). — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 5: BIBLE. (Hebrew, Pentateuch & Five Scrolls). Chamishah Chumshei Torah. * With: Chamesh Megiloth. — $2,000 - $2,500
Lot 6: BIBLE. (Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [entire 24 Books]. Woodcut title within ornate arch, — $1,200 - $1,800
Lot 7: BIBLE. (Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [entire Twenty-four Books]. Four parts, complete in one volume. — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 8: BIBLE. Sepher Tehillim - Liber Psamorum. Hebrew and Latin on facing pages, prepared by Johannes Leusden. — $300 - $500
Lot 9: BIBLE. (Hebrew, Pentateuch and Haphtaroth). Tikun Sopherim - Quinque Libri Mosis. Six volumes bound in one. — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 10: BIBLE. (Hebrew, Pentateuch & Haphtaroth). Me’or Einayim. Prepared by Wolf Heidenheim. — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 11: BIBLE. * (Chumash & Haphtaroth). Ein HaSofer. Prepared by Wolf Heidenheim. — $1,200 - $1,800
Lot 12: BIBLE. (Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end] With Nikud and cantillation points. Four parts in one volume. — $40,000 - $60,000
Lot 13: (CEREMONIES). Yitzchak Tyrnau. Minhagim. According to Polish, Lithuanian, Bohemian, Moravian and German rite. — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 14: (CEREMONIES). Yitzchak Tyrnau. Minhagim mikol Hashanah. According to the custom of Moravia, Poland, — $1,500 - $2,000
Lot 15: (CEREMONIES). Yitzchak Tyrnau. Minhagim. According to Polish, Lithuanian, Bohemian, Moravian and German rite. — $800 - $1,200
Lot 16: (CEREMONIES). Birchath Hamazon - Dos Benshen [compendium of selected festive rites]. — $1,500 - $2,000
Lot 17: (CEREMONIES). Minhagim. Title flanked by Moses and Samuel, with the Binding of Isaac above. — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 18: (CEREMONIES). Minhagim. According to the custom of Germany and Poland. Woodcut illustrations of ceremonies. — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 19: (CEREMONIES). Yitchak Tyrnau. Minhagim . ff. 24, 24-35, 35-68. Lightly foxed. Contemporary boards. 8vo. — $400 - $600
Lot 20: (CEREMONIES). Seder Birchath Hamazon U’Keriath Shema. Hebrew text with Yiddish translation. Woodcut illustrations. — $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 21: (CEREMONIES). Group of eight editions of Sepher Minhagim, all printed in Germany. — $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 22: (CHASSIDISM). SHAPIRA (SPIRA), TZVI ELIMELECH OF DYNOV. Bnei Yissaschar [mystical discourses on the Sabbath, — $5,000 - $7,000
Lot 23: (CHASSIDISM). Grand Rebbe Shlomo Rabinovitch of Radomsk . Tifereth Shlomo. Second edition, — $300 - $500
Lot 24: (CHASSIDISM). Mara’n Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter Ha’Admor Me’Gur. — $300 - $500
Lot 26: BEILIN, ELIEZER. Sepher Ha’Ibronoth [astronomy and calculations of intercalation and the Jewish calendar]. — $1,200 - $1,800
Lot 27: CHAIM BEN AVRAHAM HAKOHEN OF ALEPPO. — $600 - $900
Lot 28: (FRANKFURT). Group of 16 Hebrew volumes, all printed in, or relating to, Frankfurt and its local custom. — $600 - $900
Lot 29: GAGUINE, CHAIM AVRAHAM. Chukei Chaim [responsa with Talmudic and Halachic novellae]. First Edition. — $200 - $300
Lot 31: IMMANUEL BEN SOLOMON OF ROME. (Manoello Giudeo). Sepher HaMachbaroth LeMar Immanuel. FIRST EDITION. — $6,000 - $9,000
Lot 32: (INDIA). Pizmonim LeYamim Rosh HaShanah U’leYom Kippur [liturgical poetry, — $400 - $600
Lot 33: (INDIA). Haham Shlomo Twena. Sepher Midrash Eliyahu [eulogy for Sir Elias David Joseph Ezra of Calcutta]. — $200 - $400
Lot 34: (INDIA). Sepher Tehillim [Book of Psalms]. — $300 - $500
Lot 35: (INDIA). [Haftorah for Tisha b’Av]. Printed on stone lithography. Issued without a title-page. — $300 - $500
Lot 36: (ITALY). Shir Le’Ma’aloth Chaburath Mishmereth HaBoker VeHaErev. Single leaf broadside. — $200 - $400
Lot 37: (ITALY). Seder HaHa’arachah VeHanhagah [communal tax regulations and obligations]. Title within architectural arch. — $500 - $700
Lot 38: (JERUSALEM). (Vilna Gaon). * Adereth Eliyahu. 1859. * Sepher Yonah. 1866. * Yalkut Avanim. 1875. — $600 - $900
Lot 39: (JERUSALEM). Vital, Chaim. Sepher HaGoraloth [Kabbalah]. First Edition. ff. (2). 44, 49-52. Browned. — $400 - $600
Lot 40: (JERUSALEM). Group of six Hebrew volumes, all prayers and meditations published in Jerusalem. — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 41: (KABBALAH). Shimon Abayov. Bath Melech [addendum to Sefer Zera Kodesh Matzevta of R. Moshe Graff]. First edition. — $300 - $500
Lot 42: (LITURGY). Seder Tephiloth Mikol Hashanah. * Bound With: Seder Tehilim. * Seder Ma’amadoth. — $600 - $900
Lot 43: (LITURGY). Sha’arei Rachamim [selected prayers, with mystical meditations]. FIRST EDITION. — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 44: (LITURGY). Machzor [festival prayers]. According to Ashkenazic rite. Complete in four volumes. — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 45: (LITURGY). Isaac Tyrnau. Birkath HaMazon [selected festive prayers]. According to the custom of Germany and Poland. — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 46: (LITURGY). * Arba Ta’anioth [penitential prayers for the four fast days: 10th Teveth, the Fast of Esther, — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 47: (LITURGY). Group of five Hebrew prayer-books, all printed in Amsterdam. Printed in: 1704, 1723, 1739, 1776, — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 48: (LITURGY). Group of six Hebrew volumes, all Seder Ta’aniyoth [prayers for fast days]. All printed in Amsterdam. — $1,200 - $1,800
Lot 49: (LITURGY). Group of six Hebrew prayer-books, all printed in Amsterdam. See attached photographs for titles. — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 50: (LITURGY). Group of eight Hebrew prayer-books, all printed in Amsterdam. See attached photographs for titles. — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 51: (LITURGY). Group of Ten Hebrew volumes . Assorted prayer-books all printed in Italy. — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 52: (LITURGY). Group of 11 Hebrew volumes. All comprising different editions of Selichoth [penitential prayers]. — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 53: (LITURGY). Group of 16 Hebrew volumes. — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 54: (LOEWENSTAMM, SHAUL). Yitzhak Iyzak Friedman. Zichron Teru’ah [eulogy for The Binyan Ariel (1717-90)]. — $400 - $600
Lot 55: MEIR IBN GABBAI. Avodath HaKodesh [Kabbalah]. Second edition. Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes. — $800 - $1,000
Lot 56: (MINIATURE BOOKS). Group of Seven Hebrew volumes. All prayer-books printed in Italy. — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 57: (MINIATURE BOOKS). Group of Nine Hebrew volumes. All prayer-books. See attached photographs for titles. — $800 - $1,200
Lot 58: PARDO, YOSEPH. Shulchan HaTahor [summary of laws extracted from R. Yoseph Karo’s Shulchan Aruch]. — $400 - $600
Lot 59: PERACHIAH, AARON BEN CHAIM ABRAHAM HAKOHEN. Perach Mateh Aharon [responsa]. First Edition. — $300 - $500
Lot 60: (ROEDELHEIM). Group of 10 Hebrew volumes, all printed in Roedelheim. See attached photographs for titles. — $700 - $1,000
Lot 61: (ROEDELHEIM). Group of 10 Hebrew volumes, all printed in Roedelheim, all liturgical. — $600 - $900
Lot 62: (ROEDELHEIM). Group of 12 Hebrew volumes, all printed in Roedelheim, all liturgical. — $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 63: SINZHEIM, JOSEPH DAVID BEN ISAAC. "Chef du Grand Sanhedrin, — $1,200 - $1,800
Lot 64: (SLAVITA). Sepher HaMaggid. Volume 6 only: Iyov, Daniel, Ezra, Nechemiah. With Rashi, — $300 - $500
Lot 65: (TEHILIM). Two Hebrew editions of the Book of Psalms: * Sepher Tehilim. ff. (134). [Vinograd, Geneva 8]. Geneva, — $800 - $1,200
Lot 66: (TEHILIM). Group of Four editions of the Book of Psalms, all Hebrew-Latin: * Wittenburg, 1566. * Leiden, 1595. — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 67: (TEHILIM). Group of Five European Hebrew editions of the Book of Psalms. Printed in Kiev, Ofen, Sighet, Vilna (2). — $500 - $700
Lot 68: (TEHILIM). Group of Six Hebrew editions of the Book of Psalms. All printed in Germany. — $600 - $900
Lot 69: (TEHILIM). Group of Nine Hebrew editions of the Book of Psalms. All printed in Italy. — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 70: (TEHILIM). Group of Thirteen European Hebrew editions of the Book of Psalms. Printed in Amsterdam (3), Basel, — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 71: (TZFAT). Sepher Vayikra. With Rashi, Baal HaTurim, Sifthei Chachamim and Nachal Kedumim by the Chid’a. — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 72: (BREUER, SALOMON). Yisrael Ephraim Fishel Sofer. Afsei Aretz al HaTorah [commentary on Bereishith and Shemoth]. — $600 - $900
Lot 73: (MIR - SHANGHAI). Reshimos Shiurim, notes and ID card from Mir Yeshiva student in Shanghai. — $400 - $600
Lot 74: FINKEL, ELIEZER YEHUDAH (Rosh Yeshiva Mir, 1879-1965). Three Typed Letters Signed written in Hebrew on letterhead. — $300 - $500
Lot 75: HALBERSTAM, ELISHA (Grand Rebbe of Sanz, 1859-1941). Three Autograph Letters Signed written in Hebrew. — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 76: HALBERSTAM, YECHEZKEL SHRAGA LIPSCHITZ (Admor of Stropkov, 1908-94). Typed Letter Signed. — $200 - $300
Lot 77: SCHNEERSON, MENACHEM MENDEL. (Seventh Grand Rebbe of Lubavitch, 1902-94). Typed Letter Signed written in Hebrew to R. — $600 - $900
Lot 78: (CHASSIDISM). Personal papers and manuscript Kamei’os of R. Dovid Yitzhak Eizik Rabinowitz, — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 79: (CHASSIDISM). Group of Eleven Books from the library of R. — $500 - $1,000
Lot 80: (CHASSIDISM). ZILBER, MEIR TODROS (Grand Rebbe of Yavuzhner - Williamsburg). — $100 - $200
Lot 81: (CHASSIDISM). R. Chaim Zanvil Abramowitz. Hantuch - Personal Mikve Towel used by the Ribnitzer Rebbe. R. — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 82: (CHASSIDISM). R. Chaim Zanvil Abramowitz. Schach from the Ribnitzer Rebbe’s Sukkah. Small package. — $200 - $400
Lot 83: (CHASSIDISM). Raziel HaMalach. Entire text on microfilm, issued on laminated ‘business-card. — $100 - $200
Lot 84: (CHASSIDISM). (Admor of Makova). Small container of honey blessed and directly received from the Rebbe, R. — $200 - $400
Lot 85: (CHASSIDISM). Small container of honey blessed by: 1. Admor R. Yeshaya Ya’akov Portugal of Skulan. 2. R. — $200 - $400
Lot 86: (CHASSIDISM). (Grand Rebbe of Tosh, 1921-2015). R. Meshilem Feish Segal Lowy. — $200 - $400
Lot 87: (CHASSIDISM). — $200 - $400
Lot 88: (CHASSIDISM). Matbe'ah Kodesh. Struck from coins received from: 1. R. Yoelish of Satmar. 2. R. — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 89: (KABBALAH). Shalom (Mizrachi) Sharabi. Tephiloth Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur [liturgy for the Days of Awe]. — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 90: GIKATILLA, YOSEPH. Sepher HaNikud VeSod HaChashmal [examining the mystical significance of the Nekudoth; — $1,200 - $1,800
Lot 91: ALFASI, YITZCHAK (RI’F). Halachic Code on Talmud Tractates Baba Metzi’ah and Baba Bathra. — $6,000 - $9,000
Lot 92: (BIBLE). Single Manuscript Leaf. Exodus (Shemoth) Chap. 22, verses 4-29. Written in Hebrew on vellum. — $60,000 - $90,000
Lot 94: MOSHE BEN MAIMON (Ramba’m / Maimonides). Mishneh Torah - Sepher Mishpatim & Sepher Kinyan [code of Jewish law]. — $30,000 - $40,000
Lot 95: (KARAITICA). Kiddush Leil Shimmurim (Karaite Haggadah). [Egypt, c. 14th century]. — $30,000 - $50,000
Lot 96: (AMERICA). Sepher Tehilim. Liber Psalmorum Hebraïce cum Notis Selectis ex Editione Frances Hare S.T.P. — $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 97: (AMERICA). Tehilim - Liber Psalmorum. Text in square Hebrew characters with vowel points and cantillation notes. — $1,200 - $1,800
Lot 98: (AMERICA). (Chumash / Pentateuch). Torath Ha’Elo-him: The Law of God. Edited, — $5,000 - $7,000
Lot 99: (AMERICA). The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures. Prepared by Isaac Leeser. — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 100: (AMERICA). Group of Seven volumes, all prayer-books. See attached photographs for titles. Variously bound, — $600 - $900
Lot 101: (AMERICA). (Liturgy). * Machzor - Form of Prayers for the New Year. pp. 234, 144, 20. — $12,000 - $18,000
Lot 102: (AMERICA). (Liturgy). Minhag America - The Daily Prayers, for American Israelites, Revised in Conference. — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 103: (AMERICA). Group of eight Hebrew volumes, published in America. All of a polemical nature, — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 104: (AMERICA). Group of five Hebrew volumes, all published in Chicago. See attached photographs for titles. — $600 - $900
Lot 105: (AMERICA). Group of twelve volumes, Haskalah, scholarship and related. Texts in Hebrew, some English. — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 106: (AMERICA). Group of sixteen Hebrew volumes, Rabbinics, responsa and related. See attached photographs for titles. — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 107: (AMERICA). Talmud Bavli VeMasechtoth Ketanoth Yerushalmi’oth. Complete in one volume. With commentaries. — $500 - $700
Lot 108: NOAH, MORDECAI MANUEL Autograph Letter Signed, written in English to Congressman Elisha R. Patter of Rhode Island. — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 109: (AMERICA) . Salomon I. (Jacob) Cohen. Elements of the Jewish Faith. First American edition. pp. 56. Browned, — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 110: (AMERICA). The Jew; Being a Defence of Judaism Against All Adversaries, — $5,000 - $7,000
Lot 111: (AMERICA). PHILLIPS, JONAS B. Camillus; or, The Self-Exiled Patriot. A Tragedy, in Five Acts. First Edition. — $400 - $600
Lot 112: (AMERICA). * LEESER, ISAAC. "The Jews and Their Religion” in: I. Daniel Rupp. — $300 - $500
Lot 113: (AMERICA). Joseph Schwarz. A Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine. — $1,500 - $2,000
Lot 114: (AMERICA). Wilburn, Cora. “The Slave Mother’s Lament.” First appearance of this important anti-slavery poem, — $500 - $700
Lot 115: (AMERICA). Imrei Lev / Meditations and Prayers for Every Situation and Occasion in Life. First Edition. — $500 - $700
Lot 116: (AMERICA). The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln…Expressions of Condolence and Sympathy Inspired by these Events. — $600 - $900
Lot 117: (AMERICA). Johlson, Joseph. Instruction in the Mosaic Religion. Translated from the German by Isaac Leeser. — $600 - $900
Lot 118: (AMERICA). San Francisco and Bay Cities Jewish Blue Book, 1916. Containing the Names, — $1,200 - $1,800
Lot 119: (AMERICA). Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York. Dedication Exercises. — $300 - $500
Lot 120: (AMERICA). Group of Four volumes, all synagogue music. See attached photographs for titles. Variously bound, — $600 - $900
Lot 121: (AMERICA). Group of Six volumes . Educational texts for Jewish students in America. — $500 - $700
Lot 122: (AMERICA). Group of eight volumes. American 19th-century works, all on Jewish history. — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 123: (AMERICA). Group of eight volumes. See attached photographs for titles. Variously bound, some wear. v.s. — $600 - $900
Lot 124: (AMERICA). Group of Nine volumes. Jewish texts issued in America. See attached photographs for titles. — $700 - $1,000
Lot 125: (AMERICA). Group of Ten volumes. Judaic studies issued in America. See attached photographs for titles. — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 126: (AMERICA). Group of twelve volumes, all on Hebrew language and grammar. See attached photographs for titles. — $1,500 - $2,000
Lot 127: AGUILAR, GRACE. * Shema Yisrael - The Spirit of Judaism. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Philadelphia, 1842. — $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 128: (ANGLO-JUDAICA). A Seder Olam, That is: Order of the World, or Yeares from the Fall to the Restoring. Marginalia. pp. — $600 - $900
Lot 129: (ANGLO-JUDAICA). * ISAAC ABENDANA. Discourses of the Ecclesiastical and Civil Polity of the Jews. pp. (8), 200. — $800 - $1,200
Lot 130: (ANGLO-JUDAICA). (Liturgy). Seder Tephiloth mikol HaShanah Keminhag Polin [prayers for the entire year]. — $1,500 - $2,000
Lot 131: (ANGLO-JUDAICA). Bedersi, Yedai'ah HaPenini. — $300 - $500
Lot 132: (ANGLO-JUDAICA). [Parliamentary Act. — $600 - $900
Lot 133: (ANGLO-JUDAICA). [Parliamentary Act. — $500 - $700
Lot 134: (ANGLO-JUDAICA). [Parliamentary Act. — $600 - $900
Lot 135: (ANGLO-JUDAICA). Shapotshnick, Joseph . Untervegens Sha’s… Masechta Geirim. With lengthy introduction in Yiddish. — $200 - $300
Lot 136: (ANGLO-JUDAICA). AARON HART. Three-quarter length portrait engraving, — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 137: (ANTISEMITICA). Lazare, Bernard. Antisemitism, its History and Causes. First Edition in English. pp. 384. — $100 - $200
Lot 138: (ARGENTINA). Tephiloth kol Hashanah - Ritual de Oraciones para Todo el Ano [prayers throughout the year]. — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 139: (ARGENTINA). Yiddish Theater. — $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 140: (ARGENTINA). Queì es el Antisemitismo? Encuesta Mundial [“What is Antisemitism? A Global Survey. — $200 - $300
Lot 141: ARGENTINA. (Antisemitism). The “Estrella Victoriosa” Affair. — $6,000 - $9,000
Lot 142: (AUSTRIA). (Edict). Von der zu Hungarn und Böheim Königlichen Majestät etc. etc. — $500 - $700
Lot 143: (AUSTRIA). Oesterreichs Perle : Festgedicht zur Begrüßung Ihrer kaiserl. königl. — $800 - $1,200
Lot 144: (AUSTRIA). Tenu Ezrah Le’Olim Me’Austria! - Helft den österreichischen Olim! Small broadside. — $400 - $600
Lot 145: BECK, JOHANNES JODOCUS. Tractatus de Juribus Judaeorum / Von Recht der Juden. Worinnen von denen Gesetzen, — $300 - $500
Lot 146: (BIBLIOGRAPHY). Rabinovicz, Raphael Nathan Nata. Ohel Avraham [catalogue of the library of Abraham Merzbacher]. — $200 - $400
Lot 147: (BIBLIOGRAPHY). Catalog der Reichhaltigen Sammlungen Hebräischer und Jüdischer Bücher, Handschriften. — $200 - $300
Lot 148: (BIBLIOGRAPHY). Group of c. 60 volumes. See attached photographs for titles. Variously bound, some wear. v.s. — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 149: BODENSCHATZ, JOHANN CHRISTOPH GEORG. — $800 - $1,200
Lot 150: BUBER, MARTIN. (Editor). Der Jude - Eine Monatsschrift. Erster Jahrganag 1916-1917. pp. (6), 856. Browned. — $100 - $150
Lot 151: (BULGARIA). The Sephardic Jewish Community of Roustchouk (today, Ruse, Bulgaria). Mutual Aid Society, — $1,200 - $1,800
Lot 152: BUXTORF, JOHANNES (The Elder). Thesaurus Grammaticus Linguae Sanctae Hebraeae. First Edition. — $200 - $400
Lot 153: BUXTORF, JOHANNES. Concordantiæ Bibliorum Hebraicæ [Biblical concordance]. — $400 - $600